any news on vanities?

[pretendworld]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 4:37am

so any news on vanities? i really hope it gets to open soon...

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 6:53am

It got postponed.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:06am

And no other news came with that annoucement. Sadly, I wouldn't be suprised if its over and done with. I suspect that once a show "postpones" without dates telling how long....that it's actually dead in the water.

We can hope.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 1:20pm

Not over and done yet. Work is still happening on bringing it to Broadway but honestly it may be in the autumn and not in the spring before it surfaces.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 1:26pm

I think it's probably better that it waits it out. There's a lot of "big" musicals this season, so I think it might work out better for it if it waits. Also, I think, it would fair better if it opened right before Tony deadlines, but maybe that's just me.

[pli1018]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 1:27pm

I'm very excited to see this, but I'm sure it'd be better to open either this fall or next spring. They will still have competition but when it comes to Tonys, they won't have to compete with the 3 ladies from 9 to 5.

[winston89]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 1:35pm

I honestly don't know if a three person chamber musical will sell well these days. With bigger musicals like Billy Elliot and 9 to 5 coming along I am dubious that it would do well. I mean, look at The Story Of My Life, there are people out there saying that it wouldn't do well just because it is a two person musical. I guess that time will tell.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:15pm

Oh winston89, I've been meaning to ask what the "89" in your screen name implies. It's not your IQ, is it?

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:18pm

Whoa! Unsolicited insults! Now we've got the ball rolling!

Okay, winston, now you call Dolly out on it, and then Dolly can call you "dear" and make a condescending remark that would have been welcome in the Hamptons in 1954.

God love you both.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:23pm

PiraquaGuy, you weren't implying that I would say to winston something like, "How sad to learn that when you were born they threw away the baby and kept the bathwater," were you? I can come up with more effective bon mots.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:30pm

I'd love to hear some. Hopefully they'll be better than that mal mot.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:31pm

The only mal mots around here are what you post, sweetheart.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:33pm

Oo. Didn't see that one coming.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:34pm

Then, dear child, you should get your eyes examined.

[elphabelle07]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:50pm

Aaaaaaaaand bringing it back to the "Vanities" topic...
I have not heard much either. I'm thinkin' it'd be wiser for them to wait for next year. I just hope that it is able to make its Broadway debut!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 11:31pm

I think it's stupid to say what will sell and what won't sell. Honestly, nothing is a sure bet. This time last year I would have thought "Shrek" would have been a huge hit, but it's not doing that great.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 11:33pm

It won't sell and it's not happening.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 12:45am

Oh sh*t.

And yeah, it's not gonna happen.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 1:07am

Was supposed to begin on Monday, I believe. Per Lauren Kennedy, its not coming to Broadway.

[pretendworld]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 9:08am

lauren told you it definately wasn't going to happen, or are you going by what it says on her website?

[Testing1232]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 9:19am

She announced it at "Sardi's" last night (she was the special guest at James Barbour's concert)

She performed one of the songs from "Vanities", right after she announced that it was supposed to open Monday, but isn't going to happen after all.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 9:51am

Yes...the announcement that it was POSTPONED came several months ago...not just in the last few days or weeks....so not really news.

She wouldn't be automatically tied to anymore....if indeed there is any shred of hope that it is (eventually) coming.

As said by others: IF it's going to happen next fall would be the earliest I'd see it happening. Godspell was "postponed", Brigadoon was "postponed", Nice Work If You Can Get It was "postponed".

[pretendworld]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 1:11pm

i wonder if they're going to release the cast recording or not. the snippets sounded great

[jaimiecheno]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:06pm

I wish they would release it! But Lauren will be singing from VANITIES at this benefit:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kennedy_Adams_and_Spina_Join_Heres_to_the_Ladies_who_CARE_Benefit_Feb_9th_20090202

It should be fun!!!

[TheCharleston]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:11pm

Pirag - why do you stick your nose into every single argument/quarrel/nasty comment?

if DollyPop wants to criticize Winston for sounding like a dumbass (which he does 105% of the time), so be it.

What's the point of you getting involved? It's getting old.